Allyson Gibson Anderson '03

Education:

Career Highlights:

After completing her Ph.D. research in the Laboratory for Ultrasonics at
Washington University, Allyson Gibson Anderson joined the staff of Stereotaxis,
Inc. as a biomedical research engineer. Her Ph.D. research, which has
been published in various scholarly journals, focused on quantitative
cardiovascular tissue characterization in mid-gestational fetal hearts
and hearts of subjects with type 2 diabetes. Through her doctoral
research, she has collaborated with several physicians at Washington
University's School of Medicine and spent four months at the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C., working with distinguished
scientists. During the summer of 2008, Anderson was awarded a national
fellowship, and was named the Martha Anne Reynolds Endowed P.E.O.
Scholar for her contributions to the scientific field. In addition,
Anderson designed a study of health care public policy in the St. Louis
community as a participant of the Coro Women in Leadership Program. She
is a featured "Women in Science" lecturer at Washington University.